Description
Celebrate Easter with this adorable Easter Bunny Poke Cake! A delicious white cake filled with vanilla pudding, topped with whipped cream, coconut ‘grass,’ and festive Easter candies. Perfect for a springtime dessert.
Ingredients
Scale
For the Cake:
- 1 box (15.25 oz) white cake mix (plus ingredients listed on box)
For the Filling:
- 1 box (3 oz) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups milk
- Pink food coloring
For Topping and Decoration:
- 1 tub (8 oz) whipped topping (thawed)
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- Assorted Easter sprinkles or candies (jelly beans, mini marshmallows, bunny Peeps)
- Green food coloring (optional, for coconut ‘grass’)
Instructions
- Prepare the Cake: Preheat oven and bake the white cake in a 9×13-inch dish. Cool for 10 minutes.
- Make the Holes: Poke holes in the cake using a wooden spoon handle.
- Prepare the Filling: Whisk pudding mix and milk, add pink food coloring, pour over the cake, and chill.
- Add Toppings: Spread whipped topping over the set pudding, tint coconut with green food coloring, sprinkle over the cake.
- Decorate: Add Easter sprinkles, candies, and bunny Peeps.
- Serve: Keep refrigerated until ready to enjoy.
Notes
- You can customize the pudding flavor and color for different occasions.
- For extra texture, mix crushed cookies or pastel M&Ms into the topping.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 310mg
- Fat: 11g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 41g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 35mg